6 th Annual Federal Environmental Symposium: National BIM Standard June 5, 2007 Dana K. “Deke” Smith, AIA Executive Director, buildingSMART Alliance

© NIBS 2007 Stating the Problem $3 Trillion industry with possible 30% waste Facilities consume 40% of the energy Facilities contribute 40% of the emissions Facilities contribute to 20% of land fills NIST in 2004 identified $15.8B lost to lack of interoperability Enough is enough…it is time for a change

© NIBS 2007 Reversing the Trend Goal - Turn a stagnant or declining productivity curve to an exponentially improving one ….

© NIBS 2007 NIBS’ Enabling Legislation Public Law , Sect. 809 (1974) Congress directed NIBS to “exercise its functions and responsibilities in four general areas, relating to building regulations……………..” 1.Develop & maintain performance criteria for maintenance of life, safety, health, and public welfare for the built environment. 2.Evaluate building technology to meet the above criteria. 3.Conduct related and needed investigations 4.Assemble, store, and disseminate technical data and related information NIBS acts as a non-threatening open forum host for capital facilities industry collaboration and a recognized consensus process

© NIBS 2007 Depth of Relationships NIBS Councils or Organizations with MOU NIBS Councils or Organizations with MOU Associates Organizations Contributing $10k or Above Organizations Contributing $10k or Above Sponsors Students, Individuals, Corporations, & Government Students, Individuals, Corporations, & Government Members International Alliance for Interoperability ® 12 Other Chapters OGC ®

© NIBS 2007 IAI Global Organization: April 2007 IAI Global Organization: April chapters - 26 countries organizations Membership Owners Architects Engineers Facility managers Builders Manufacturers Software vendors Universities Research laboratories ? 16 Copyright © Vladimir Bazjanac/LBNL 2007

© NIBS 2007 What is the buildingSMART Alliance? North America’s focused response to the worldwide effort… to provide the basis for culture change across the real property industry to document the business case and return on investment to coordinate training and education across the industry to improve customers understanding of the delivered product to create an industry coordinating entity to link efforts to provide a coordinated voice for users, suppliers and vendors in the industry to minimize use of energy and hazardous materials to coordinate BIM research and development to provide a common approach to implementing standards

© NIBS 2007 Scope, Products & Benefits Support Business Practice Promote Research & Development Educate Practitioners & Users Improve Environment Improve Quality of Life STAKEHOLDERS Foster Alliances & Standards Provide Visualization Enhance Economic Impact Support Real Property Community Empower Users

© NIBS 2007 Business Plan Summary OBJECTIVE – To improve industry productivity. Focus on eliminating waste in sustainability, energy and environment. STRATEGY - Identify valuable opportunities to ensure that interoperable open standards based products are delivered. MEMBERSHIP - Multiple membership options that allow all interested parties to participate. BENEFITS - Leveraging investments to accomplish more than anyone could on their own. Funds will accelerated implementation. DO NO HARM – Work with everyone to bring the effort to the next level of implementation – linking it all together.

© NIBS 2007 How You Can Get Involved Invitation to Join the buildingSMART Alliance

© NIBS 2007 Building Information Modeling as a Tool to build a facility virtually to simulate its construction and lifecycle operation prior to building it physically to work out construct problems to predict and monitor energy performance to reduce energy usage to examine material sustainability used in the facility over its lifecycle to coordinate construction efforts to reduce delivery time to minimize or eliminate the waste of change orders to improve environmental impact of the facility – internally and externally and over the lifecycle including disposal to enter data once when it is created as part of the business process then retain it for use later in the lifecycle BIM is the tool that will provide us the opportunity…

© NIBS 2007 Initial phases of BIM SchematicConceptual [ Analysis ] Physical Modeled Actual

© NIBS 2007 BIM Delivered to Facility Managers Massachusetts General Hospital Courtesy Benjamin D. Hall Interdisciplinary Research Building Courtesy CRC and Sydney Opera House

© NIBS 2007 BIM Model Checking Many items can be checked if the information is in the model… Solibri is an example of one company who uses IFC’s and is certified IFC 2x3 compliant

© NIBS 2007 LEED and Energy Analysis When designing the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Seattle, NBBJ and its consultants used computer modeling to analyze air temperature distribution to determine the benefits of displacement ventilation in the courtroom lobby, halfway up the tower (indicated with a green stripe on the drawing).

© NIBS 2007 Energy Analysis Tools

© NIBS 2007 BIM as a Facility Management Tool Managing The Facility with BIM BIM Without Makeup

© NIBS 2007 National BIM Standard to achieve interoperability across the lifecycle to keep firms from re-inventing BIM approach to define business processes for automation to define information exchanges to provide a common dictionary to document and support model views to harmonize building object definitions to develop common information delivery approach to coordinate product manufacturer and suppliers information delivery to define the overall scope of BIM to define levels of maturity Standards are needed to coordinate all the entities working together…

© NIBS 2007 BIM Definition A Building Information Model (BIM) is a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility. As such it serves as a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life-cycle from inception onward. –A basic premise of BIM is collaboration by different stakeholders at different phases of the life cycle of a facility to insert, extract, update or modify information in the BIM process to support and reflect the roles of that stakeholder. The BIM is a shared digital representation founded on open standards for interoperability.

© NIBS 2007 Design StageConception Stage Project Delivery Selection Stage Construction Documents Stage Procurement StageExecution Stage Utilization Stage Closure Stage 1Yr Business Model Optimized approach with virtual modeling and analysis with reduced change orders & delivery time and lower operating and sustainment costs Typical approach failing to do routine maintenance and having to replace items earlier and more often The yet untapped $avings Typical design/build approach with required maintenance The savings we are currently experiencing with faster delivery and fewer change orders 1.5Yr2yr100+ Years 1Yr Dollars Expended on Facility Typical Lifecycle View

© NIBS 2007 Who Benefits? Owners Planners Realtors Appraisers Mortgage Bankers Designers Engineers Cost & Quantity Estimators Specifiers Contracts Lawyers Construction Contractors Sub-Contractors Fabricators Code Officials Zoning Facility Managers Owners Planners Realtors Appraisers Mortgage Bankers Designers Engineers Cost & Quantity Estimators Specifiers Contracts Lawyers Construction Contractors Sub-Contractors Fabricators Code Officials Zoning Facility Managers BuildingInformationModel(BIM) Maintenance & Sustainment Renovation & Restoration Disposal & Recycling Scoping, Testing, Simulation Safety & Occupational Health Environmental & NEPA Plant Operations Energy, LEED Space & Security Network Managers CIO’s Risk Management Occupant Support First Responders Disaster Recovery Continuation of Operations Plans Maintenance & Sustainment Renovation & Restoration Disposal & Recycling Scoping, Testing, Simulation Safety & Occupational Health Environmental & NEPA Plant Operations Energy, LEED Space & Security Network Managers CIO’s Risk Management Occupant Support First Responders Disaster Recovery Continuation of Operations Plans

© NIBS 2007 Scope of Real Property Industry IAI-IFC Usage Space Natural Asset Linear Structure Structure Building Facility / Built Theatre / World Sub-Systems System Level Site Real Property Asset Country State / Province County Installation / Region Node Segment Room Space System Level Sub-Systems Room Water / Sea Land / Parcel Underground Air / Space Overlay Components City

© NIBS 2007 National BIM Standard A Major Product of the Alliance Delivery scheduled for late June 2007 Part 2 – December 2007

© NIBS 2007 NBIMS Charter Signers

© NIBS 2007 OmniClass tm Other Groups Working on NBIMS

© NIBS 2007 Facility Information in 10 years We will look at the lifecycle cost of the facility –We will view the facility as having a 100+ year life –We will keep people and process in context with facility costs Operations will receive a model from design/construction stage We will have models for existing facilities to capture facility information as it is learned Facility models will be maintained as part of doing business Facilities needs will be tied to mission Maintenance of systems will be based on priority across the portfolio Facility performance including energy usage will be monitored to ensure it meets design specs Building models will be more accurate because of links to fabrication and supply / manufacturers The authoritative source will maintain the model and audits will be in place Access to model information will be controlled and based on need to know We will have accurate costs and change orders will be at a minimum Facilities will be delivered earlier Facilities will be more sustainable, energy efficient and more environmentally friendly

© NIBS 2007 Questions Thank You –Deke Smith, AIA –Executive Director buildingSMART alliance™ –Office (202) –Direct (703) –Cell (703) –NIBS Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 700 | Washington, DC For more information: